
Lovecraft, and has also contributed articles to Something Awful. Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. He is a writer and an editor, putting together several publications such as What It Means To Be A Grown-Up and The Untold Stories Of H.P. You see people in full costume you see people of all ages and backgrounds. Joseph Fink co-founded Commonplace Books and created Welcome to Night Vale. We had a total of 4,000 people see the show in London. How Cranor and Fink's friends describe the showĬranor: Our friend Kate Leth (who does a lot of artwork for us, for the show too), when she first heard about the show, she posted on her blog that it was like "if Stephen King and Neil Gaiman started a game of SIMS and then just left it running forever."įink: The whole running joke of the interns that die constantly did not come into play I think until, probably the third of fourth episode and then it just kept happening we were like, "Whoa, okay." We've written a great number of friends into the show, and then killed them, is what the intern system has turned into.Ĭranor: It was amazing and just so unexpected, I've been doing theater for so long and then suddenly here's several hundred people.


How unlikely! How fantastic! And stupid.Welcome To 'Night Vale' - Watch Out For The Tarantulas Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff’s. And then there will be night.īut how beautiful these moments within the dissolve! What a temporary perfection we can find within this passing world! Everything good ever done! Everything good that was done today, and all the good people doing it, and back and back and forward and forward, all of that beauty within a universe unraveling.īe proud of your place in the cosmos. The bustle of the human day will come and will go.

It is all a temporary manifestation of particles, and it is all unraveling back to particulate silence. So look at the fleeting stars with fleeting eyes, and feel how the earth beneath you gives. It is, in fact, its own dissolves and our lives – the entire span of human existence going back and back and, if we are lucky, forward and forward – the entire span is spent within this dissolve. The universe is not a thing that is, it is not a thing at all. But, of course, we did not stop the unraveling of the universe.

We returned to the dangerous equilibrium we had before, which we can only assume, or hope, or wish is better. Joseph Fink is the creator of the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn't Dead podcasts, and the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Welcome to Night Vale, It Devours, and The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home (all written with Jeffrey Cranor) and Alice Isn’t Dead. We won whatever unit of measurement you care to say that we won.
